Oral history.; Interview conducted February 27, 1991 with E.S. Bishop, Sr. in Corinth, Mississippi. Edward S. Bishop Sr. was born in Starkville, Mississippi, on December 11, 1907. He received a B.A. degree from Jackson College in 1930 and was...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Victoria Gray Adams at the McCain Archives at the University of Southern Mississippi. Victoria Gray Adams was a prominent civil rights activist from Palmer's Crossing, Mississippi. She...

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 24, 2007. Larry McGill is from Laurel, Mississippi. He remembers growing up deeply involved with the civil rights movement as it evolved in that community. His mother, in particular, was a vital activist in...

Oral history.; Interview conducted March 21, 2004. John Frazier was born in Greenville, Mississippi. As a young boy, he was aware of racial conflict and became involved in the civil rights struggle early. Frazier started a Youth Chapter of the...

Oral history.; Interview conducted June 7, 1999 with Joseph August. Joseph August pursued civil rights activism in Mississippi as an outsider.
Originally from New York, he came to Mississippi in the summer of 1965 as part of his involvement with...

Oral history.; Interview conducted October 12, 2007 in Neshoba County at the Posey Residence. Buford Posey was from Neshoba county, Mississippi. Posey was an activist who was deeply involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. A...

Oral history.; Interview conducted November 17, 1995. Roger Barnhill was born to Joe and Lilly Barnhill on November 12, 1940. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he was raised primarily in St. Louis, Missouri. Primed for social justice as a youth who was...

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 24, 2010. Earnest Batiste Jr. was born to Ida Mae Bradley on December 24, 1942 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a child, his mother and he were members of Main Street Missionary Baptist...

Oral history.; Interview with Herbert Aplin conducted October 18, 1991 at the Aplin Residence. Aplin was born April 23, 1916 in Indian Springs Mississippi in Perry County. He attended Buck Creek Elementary School through the eighth grade. After...

Oral history.; Interview conducted August 23, 2005 at the Alexander residence in Prentiss, Mississippi. Alexander was born on August 31, 1931 in Prentiss and attended high school and junior college at Prentiss Normal Industrial Institute. Before...

Oral history.; Interview conducted March 22, 1998. Jim Abbott documents the struggle over approval for funding for a Vocational Technology Center in Indianola and the controversy that erupted between the community and the school board. Abbott was...

Oral history.; Interview conducted November 9, 2012 at the Bordeaux reisdence. Norma Sanders Bordeaux was born to Hanson E. Sanders and Ethelyn Lou Milton Sanders in Birmingham, Alabama during the Great Depression. The family moved often as...

Oral history.; Interview conducted July 27, 2005. Victoria Webb Beck was born in Yazoo City, MS. This interview documents her career as a teacher faced with segregation and unequal rights. Ms. Beck taught at schools throughout Mississippi, in...

Oral history.; Interview conducted January 16, 2003 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Alva Beck was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school, Beck attended Rust College and began volunteering for the advancement of civil...

Oral history.; Interview conducted May 3, 2001 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Rev. John (Jack) Aregood was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He completed his seminary training at Lancaster Seminary in Lancaster, PA and was sent to Biloxi, Mississippi in...

Oral history.; Interview conducted October 17, 2001 with Chude Pamela Allen in San Francisco, California. Chude Pamela Allen was born into an Episcopal family in eastern Pennsylvania. Though her parents were republicans, their Christian ideology...

Oral history.; Interview with James "Ronnie" Ables conducted on June 25, 2003. James “Ronnie” Ables was born in Sallis, Mississippi. Ables' father served as mayor of Sallis. Ables received his Bachelor's degree in accounting from Mississippi State...

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Ruby Bradford at the Bradford Residence. Ruby Bradford was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She relocated to Mississippi in the fifth grade when her father, a Methodist minister, received a position in Laurel. Mrs....

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan holds a telephone receiver attached to a telephone cord that spells "Debate line." The receiver at the other end of the line is labeled "Carter." From it comes,...